Subject:
Crisis, Conflict, and Expansion A Troubled Second Term Essex Junto: Radical Federalists in Essex County, Mass., push for constitutional changes to favor Northeastern states Elimination of Three-Fifth?s Compromise Stricter standards for admission into statehood Call for New England and New York to secede from Union when demands rejected Yazoo Affair Land speculation scandal in Georgia Issue over state versus federal authority Tertium Quid faction created by John Randolph to protest Jefferson?s plan to acquire Florida from Spain Fractures Republican political front Aaron Burr Dropped as vice-presidential nominee in 1804 Pickering of Essex Junto offers to help Burr become governor of New York if Burr would support secession
